1) Excellent teaching and assessing, daily writing, and writing enjoyment will translate to success on writing tests.
-Whole-part-whole
-Ways we can do this
2) Being intrigued by topic choice
-Important, especially at the middle school level
3) Making the students the investigators about why a writing piece is good
-Orally read pieces and discuss what made it good
-Compare two pieces and have them pick out "good words" that made the piece sound better
4) Being a better teacher of writing:
-Staff writing pieces
-Teacher reflection notebook
-Consider what you do as a writer, and realize that all students will work differently
-Whole-part-whole
-Ways we can do this
2) Being intrigued by topic choice
-Important, especially at the middle school level
3) Making the students the investigators about why a writing piece is good
-Orally read pieces and discuss what made it good
-Compare two pieces and have them pick out "good words" that made the piece sound better
4) Being a better teacher of writing:
-Staff writing pieces
-Teacher reflection notebook
-Consider what you do as a writer, and realize that all students will work differently